So you have problems in traffic, not this hummer

In the city you bet your ass its USA Hummer and how it is driven points to the fact as well. And yes Australia after there recent escapades needs to distance itself from the USA, Its is doing us no favours in our neck of the woods.
If a country attacked Australia which everyone expects it to be from the North that’s why the Australian Army moved all vital equipment up North 12 years ago for that fact. If we where attacked even 10 years ago we would have lasted only around 4 - 5 month at best as we do not have enough ammunition back then to do much more and I bet it only has improved a little. The government thank god dose throw a little more money into defence these days.
We are now going in to training with Japanese troops in the next few months to improve there Gorilla and urban warfare training. That in its self is a marked improvement from what Australia was doing training our most dangerous neighbour in our own back yard the Indonesians.
Yes we still do have to in an emergency relay on another larger country to get us out of the **** that is why we kiss American ASS.
And because we as most buy arms off them.

The driver got the right idea about just over half way through that video. Stick to the middle and miss the cars. Its is an American voice at the end of the video.

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People in Bali driving tourists do a better illegal overtaking manoeuvre with the horn on blind bends even that the idiots in that video.

Not having ago at Drivesafe or his thoughts but that video really points out why USA is so far behind in there job over there.

And last but not least, I am so jack of ******* sticking knives into the yank.

When the japs tried to invade us, Churchill said we were expendable but the yanks can to our aid.

Just 300kms off our northern shore is the worlds largest Muslim nation and they hate us. The only thing that is keeping them from doing something to us is the fact that we are friends of the yanks.

Get a brain, if Bush dropped dead tomorrow I wouldn’t give a damn, but taking cheap shots at servicemen, of any nationality, going about they duties, is p1ssweak and singling out the yanks as if they were the only ones on earth to screw up is just pure naivety.[/quote]

Well said Mr Safe, I just spent the last week in Singapore for some training for work and while there I dropped into the Changi Chaple and museum, war is seriously F***ED UP and if I found myself in a foreign country not knowing which "civilian" was intent on my death I reckon I'd take ANY steps to ensure my survival too.

Rant mode off.

Gug.

P.S. Do you remember the footage of those Americans having their heads hacked off with daggers? If a few dented bumpers gets me home alive I have no problem with that.

Rant mode really off.

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And last but not least, I am so jack of ******* sticking knives into the yank.

When the japs tried to invade us, Churchill said we were expendable but the yanks can to our aid.

Just 300kms off our northern shore is the worlds largest Muslim nation and they hate us. The only thing that is keeping them from doing something to us is the fact that we are friends of the yanks.

Get a brain, if Bush dropped dead tomorrow I wouldn’t give a damn, but taking cheap shots at servicemen, of any nationality, going about they duties, is p1ssweak and singling out the yanks as if they were the only ones on earth to screw up is just pure naivety.

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Well said Mr Safe, I just spent the last week in Singapore for some training for work and while there I dropped into the Changi Chaple and museum, war is seriously F***ED UP and if I found myself in a foreign country not knowing which "civilian" was intent on my death I reckon I'd take ANY steps to ensure my survival too.

Rant mode off.

Gug.

P.S. Do you remember the footage of those Americans having their heads hacked off with daggers? If a few dented bumpers gets me home alive I have no problem with that.

Rant mode really off.[/quote]


So why are the Yanks so keen to stick knifes in there own back on this subject

My cousin is a surgeon at Miramar ( Top Gun ) and her husband is a major, doing his 5th tour of Iraq.

My cousin has just had their first child and I can assure you he didn’t want to go back to Iraq but as he is a professional solder, he has to do as he is ordered.

While he is in Iraq, if there is ANYTHING he can do to increase his safety, I say more power to him.

I’ve heard some tall stories but if you think our 30,000 strong military force could stop the worlds 4th largest army, I’d like to know what your on.

We have Bucklys of ever being any form of a deterrent to Indonesia if they want to come here, but while the yanks have the power they do, countries like Indonesia think twice before doing what they want.

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I’ve heard some tall stories but if you think our 30,000 strong military force could stop the worlds 4th largest army, I’d like to know what your on.

We have Bucklys of ever being any form of a deterrent

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Thats what I said. Yes we still do have to in an emergency relay on another larger country.

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Thats what I said. Yes we still do have to in an emergency relay on another larger country.

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So why put **** on the servicemen from the ONLY country that would come to our aid, if ever we needed it.

Don't forget the Indonesians are better at internal control than invasion. In normal battle we are a better force but they do have the numbers to wear us down.

IMHO, for what it's worth

1) The driving is fair enough in the circumstances, and if I were driving I'd be commenting on anyone slowly ambling across the road in front of a speeding Humvee. These guys are driving in a war zone, of course they're not going to stop to chat to the locals.

2) Criticising the policies of a country does not mean it's citizens are not your friends.

3) Saying someone is doing a poor job isn't putting them down. I think the whole world would like to see the Americans getting something more solid happening in Iraq, and it's taken them a few years to work out what they're doing.

4) As far as our defence goes, the sooner the US of A gets out of Iraq, the better. If any Muslim nation wanted to pay us a military visit, right now, when they can bog our biggest friends down in another part of the world entirely, would be a good time.

5) Think of Iraq as France in WW11 - there's a foreign power in occupation, a puppet government and an ad-hoc collection of groups that hate each other fighting the government and the invador. Then, we called them "the Resistance," now we call it an insurgency. I know that the US of A aren't boiling people down to make soap, I'm just saying that from the Iraqi point of view, they have been invaded and we can't expect them to like it. The resistance/insurgency will continue, probably indefinitely. The US can be ruthless or nice - and nice will get them killed. But if they're ruthless that doesn't play well at home. In short, they didn't read Machiavelli before they went in.

And with that, I'll put on my flameproof suit.

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So why put **** on the servicemen from the ONLY country that would come to our aid, if ever we needed it.

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Personally I still hope the British would also come to our aid, I think that would be better but they might take longer.